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ShareFilipino chefs and students gathered in Manila today in a bid to break the Guiness World Record for ‘The most number of dishes on display in a single day’.
Philippine cook yesterday set a new Guinness record for “biggest how many dishes, displayed on display and cooked in the same business day. The previous record in [...]

ShareSultan Kosen, a former basketball player from Turkey, has been acknowledged as the world’s tallest man, by the Guinness Book of Records.
26-year-old Kosen is 2 meters 46.5 cm tall and he also holds the record for the world’s biggest hands (27.5 cm) and the world’s biggest feet (36.5 cm). He grew as a normal child [...]

ShareA group of 108 daredevils did as they set about breaking a record in the skies above America.
Hitting speeds of up to 180mph after they jumped from 18,000ft, they had 40 seconds of freefall to find each other and complete their formation. Once complete, it was largest number of skydivers to link up while falling [...]

ShareAn innovative eco-friendly home in a Cotswold nature reserve has been sold for a world record £7.2 million for a country house.
The ‘thoroughly modern manor house’, modelled on a bee orchid found on the reserve, was sold off-plan last week to an anonymous buyer.
The size of an average semi, the cost works [...]

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A teenager from India who stands at a tiny 1ft 11in (58cm) tall is the smallest girl in the world.
Jyoti Amge, 14, is shorter than the average two-year-old child and only weighs 11lb (5kg).
She has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia and won’t grow any taller than her current height.

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Sixty Indian chefs on Saturday cooked a rice dish weighing 13-tonne (28,600 pounds) in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records, organisers said.
Three cranes dumped 3,000 kilos of Basmati rice, 85 kilos of chilli peppers, 1,200 litres of oil and 3,650 kilos of vegetables into a giant vat at a New Delhi [...]